Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!lion!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help needed on AmigaDos Locks
Keywords: Lock,Help,AmigaDos
Message-ID: <19674@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:29:04 GMT
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There's no need to resort to such nasty tricks to open a file given a
lock.  The Open packet, if you want to delve to that level, takes a
lock and a name relative to that lock, as arguments.

If you don't want to, cd to the lock (yes, you *can* cd to a file),
open "", and cd back.  WorkBench does this all the time, so any file
system that doesn't support cd'ing to a file will break very fast indeed.
-- 
	-Colin